Your place for wellness....... Medicine has seen numerous advances. Every day we have new research, new drugs, new investigations and to accompany them, new marketing styles. While modern medicine has research backed evidence for treatment of diseases, there are not too many physicians who are willing to accept that modern medicine, like all other forms of medicine, has its own draw backs too. Traditional medicine systems like Ayurveda, Acupuncture and Homeopathy, could not have survived this long, if they did not succeed in treating patients. Traditional medical systems have numerous advantages and in certain conditions are even better than modern medicine for the treatment of diseases. Not to mention a number of modern day treatments like diet and exercise for diabetes, heart diseases and obesity are purely derived from Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine principles. However, the very mention of alternative medicine and the one thing that comes to our mind is alternative physicians on TV, tearing apart modern medicine, blaming the modern physicians and foisting accusation on allopathic physicians and at the same time claiming to be 'Magic Pills' for all disorders. Nothing can be farther from the truth either. This has lead to alternative medicine losing its credibility. There are a number of genuine alternate physicians practicing medicine in its most ethical form, who do not lead patients astray. Alternative medicine streams are rarely backed by accurate research, BUT that does not rule out the fact that some of those methods work! Every system of medicine has its place in both history and in modern times, but not too many physicians believe in the stream of medicine that they do not practice. Modern physicians are not sure of alternative medical therapies and their efficacies, while the alternative physicians claim to be a 'one source for all problems' kind of medicine. BASIL is all about Integrative Medicine. If you have diabetes, our aim is to manage your diabetes. If modern medicine is best suited to you, then so be it. If acupuncture will help reduce the dose of your modern medications and thereby its side effects, then so be it! At your wellness doctor, you are given ample time to spend with your doctor, so that it gives both you and your doctor a better idea of your difficulty. Just getting a tablet for your 'high sugars' may not necessarily alleviate all your symptoms and at wellness doc, your doctor is here to listen to you! If you are healthy, we help you stay healthy!!! |